"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes: I disagree as well, but I think we would all be better off if the competition had been a little more friendly. :) I'm just as bad as everyone else when it comes to knee jerk reactions though, so I can't talk too much. And with a little more work you can take advantage of all the features of both. Look at VM, Gnus, and Emacs/W3 as examples. Emacs/W3 can run on XEmacs, Emacs, and Emacs + new redisplay, and take maximum advantage of the set of features. I think we need to coordinate more on new features, and also be willing to include compatibility libraries where appropriate. For instance, devices.el could be in Emacs, and the existence of overlays/text props in XEmacs. I'd also like to see a glyphs.el for the new Emacs display engine so that Emacs/W3, Gnus, and VM can have a generic API for dealing with images. But that's just being lazy. :) -bp